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==Ethnic minorities [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia&action=edit§ion=10 <u>edit</u>]]== The Khmer Rouge banned by decree the existence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cambodian <u>ethnic Chinese</u>], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people <u>Vietnamese</u>], Muslim [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham_(Asia) <u>Cham</u>], and 20 other minorities, which altogether constituted 15% of the population at the beginning of the Khmer Rouge's rule. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese were raped, mutilated, and [[murder]]ed in regime-organised massacres. Most of the survivors fled to Vietnam. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham_(Asia) <u>Cham</u>], a Muslim minority who are the descendants of migrants from the old state of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa <u>Champa</u>], were forced to adopt the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_language <u>Khmer language</u>] and customs. Their communities, which traditionally had existed apart from Khmer villages, were broken up. 40,000 Cham were killed in two districts of Kampong Cham Province alone. Thai minorities living near the Thai border also were persecuted. The state of the Chinese Cambodians was described as "the worst disaster ever to befall any ethnic Chinese community in Southeast Asia". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cambodian <u>Cambodians of Chinese descent</u>] were massacred by the Khmer Rouge under the justification that they "used to exploit the Cambodian people". The Chinese were stereotyped as traders and moneylenders, and therefore were associated with capitalism. Among the Khmer, the Chinese were also resented for their lighter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_color <u>skin color</u>] and cultural differences. Hundreds of Chinese families were rounded up in 1978 and told that they were to be resettled, but were actually executed. At the beginning of the Khmer Rouge's rule in 1975, there were 425,000 ethnic Chinese in Cambodia; by the end in 1979, there were 200,000. In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. The government of the People's Republic of China did not protest the killings of ethnic Chinese in Cambodia. The policies of the Khmer Rouge towards Sino-Cambodians seems puzzling in light of the fact that the two most powerful people in the regime and presumably the originators of the racist doctrine, Pol Pot and [[Nuon Chea]], both had mixed Chinese-Cambodian ancestry. Other senior figures in the Khmer Rouge state apparatus such as Son Sen and [[Ta Mok]] also had Chinese ethnic heritage. In the late 1980s, little was known of Khmer Rouge policies toward the tribal peoples of the northeast, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Loeu <u>Khmer Loeu</u>]. Pol Pot established an insurgent base in the tribal areas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratanakiri <u>Ratanakiri</u>] Province in the early 1960s, and he may have had a substantial Khmer Loeu following. Predominantly animist peoples, with few ties to the Buddhist culture of the lowland Khmers, the Khmer Loeu had resented Sihanouk's attempts to "civilise" them.
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